Saturday, November 21, 2009

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha I SEFILM: Polaroid "Mystical" 700 from Unsaleable expired 2/2009DATE: 10/24/09LEFT: on 11/17/09 on a directional sign along the N261 out of Brussels at the intersection of Langestraat.Click the image below to see the map.

PX No.193 Was left Here:on 7/24/09 in the grid of a deStijl - style storefront which was closed down and for sale along Rue de Bertaimont in Mons, Belgium.

Which is where PX No.188 was taken:

Which , when crossed, was left here:on the back of the headboard of our bed at the Villa Tigli bed & breakfast, on the mainland of Venice, Italy, on 7/19/09, where the skylight picture PX No.193 was shot in the first place.

Red door about 10 feet off the ground outside the parking garage of CHU Ambrose Paré Hospital in Mons Belgium. I have no clue what it could be for.

CROSSED WITH: PX No. 205 LEFT: on 7/20/09

CROSSED WITH PX No.205 which was LEFT HERE:on 8/17/09.

See the original PX No. 205 this was crossed with:

PX No 192 WAS LEFT HERE:on 7/20/09 in the Chinese Pavilion of the Arsenale exhibit at la Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Set on the floor next to a red fire extinguisher beside a piece of artwork by artist He Sen titled "The World of Taji"

PX No.205(SX No.211)CAMERA: SX-70 Alpha 1 SEFILM: 779 "Share the Love" (exp. 6/2009)Date: 7/20/09During la Biennale di Venezia 2009, this image is of an installation in the China Pavilion by artist He Sen "The World of Taiji" showing dozens of framed canvasses with a single color of paint and very light engravings which are almost imperceptible. Arsenale - Venice, Italy.

Another of the shots from the figurine booth in the Mons Street Market. This is the first Polaroid I've used markers to draw on. I really like the result and will work more on this technique. Even though this film just expired 2 months ago it is already showing signs of deterioration. I like the undeveloped spot at the top and the pink swath down the center, but I wonder how this bodes for the dozens of other packs I have with this expiration date?

This was left on 10/10/09 in the Museé d'Orsay in Paris. (ha - my first exhibition at the Orsay!) (SEE MY COMMENT BELOW)

PX No.224 (IG No.9)Camera: Polaroid Impulse (Green)Film: Polaroid 600 Copy & Fax(Expired 11/99)DATE: 8/2/09Architectural elements outside the Beaux Arts Mons gallery in Mons, Belgium. - These prints look completely black when they come out of the camera and develop very slowly into the low contrast image you see in the background. (I've got the camera set almost all the way to "lighten") Then about 30 minutes later these "bubbles" begin to appear and become harder over the hour or so. The slight orange shift you see is there indeed.

LEFT: This picture was left on 10/10/09 on the structural elements of a walkway on the 5th floor of the Museé d'Orsay in Paris.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

During la Biennale di Venezia 2009, this image is of an installation in the China Pavilion by artist He Sen "The World of Taiji" showing dozens of framed canvasses with a single color of paint and very light engravings which are almost imperceptible. Arsenale - Venice, Italy.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Just my second shot with the One-Step Close-Up, It shows three orange, traffic cones against a wall just outside this great Caribbean restaurant between the outdoor seating area and the Gas Station next door. - Shot this while waiting for my lunch after a staff meeting at the Times' Tampa bureau.

(PICTURE TO COME)

LEFT:HERE by friend and fellow artist Tanya Antonio in January 2009 in London, England inside one of the capsules of The London Eye.

...confessions of a Polaroid addict.

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Have you found one of my Polaroid pictures? I'm leaving them at random locations throughout the world. Sometimes I leave them near where they were taken. Other times they are left far away. Each of them is a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork. Please contact me to find out more about them and tell me the story about how and where you found it. Then you may keep it, or leave it somewhere else for another person to find, thereby sending each little captured frame on its own journey, giving infinite life to that one moment in space & time. For more information please visit my website: http://www.picturecrossing.com There you can browse all the PICTURECROSSING photos, see where they were left and read their stories if they have been found yet. You may also shop in my gallery of other photographs.

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is an artist, photographer and photojournalist currently living in Mons Belgium.
After 15 years working as a staff photographer for American Newspapers (most recently The St. Petersburg Times, one of America's Best Newspapers,) he now shoots as a freelance photographer all over Europe and focuses on his artwork involving strange Polaroid pictures.
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